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Drawbacks of Legacy
Software
Software
The software that once kept your business running like clockwork
is now holding you back. Here are a few key reasons to consider
software modernization and legacy software migration:
Cost of Maintenance
Like a beat-up old car that lands in the shop every other month, legacy software systems require significant maintenance just to keep them running. At a certain point, the cost (in both money and time) of maintaining the old system starts to outweigh the costs of starting over.
Inflexibility
While your old system may have suited your organization's needs perfectly when it was first installed, as your company has grown, it's struggled to keep up. Legacy software is seidom built with enough flexibility and configurability to keep up with shifting needs - at least not without heavy investments and plenty of custom coding.
Security
As data security needs have evolved and compliance measures have increased, legacy systems have become more and more risky - increasingly vulnerable to data leaks and security slipups.
Incompatibility
Many older software systems are built o technology that is no longer widely used today - and by developers who are no longer in business. A such, businesses often find that, when the do want to integrate their legacy systems with newer components and systems, the old technology is incompatible with the new. The workarounds required to achieve the desired capabilities tend to result in fragile patchwork jobs that aren't very efficient or resilient.
Dissatisfaction
When legacy systems slow down internal processes, customers start to see delays in front-end interactions - and maybe even errors in fulfillment, communication, or billing. The result is weakened loyalty and negative buzz around your business. And internally, when employees have to spend significant time coaxing the software, they have less time and energy to spend on their 'real' work, and they're less likely to be satisfied in their jobs.
Legacy Software Replacement
Zencode’s dedicated team of software engineers is well-versed in helping our clients bring their systems up to date by replacing them in a thoughtful, methodical way that’s oriented toward business outcomes, preserves existing data and information, and minimizes blackout time.
While pulling the plug on the old system entirely and replacing it with a new one right away is certainly an option, we prefer an evolutionary approach to legacy software migration - replacing one component at a time (starting with the most problematic) in order to prevent disruption by minimizing the time your organization spends offline.
Evolutionary approach
While pulling the plug on the old system entirely and replacing it with a new one right away is certainly an option, we prefer an evolutionary approach to legacy software migration - replacing one component at a time (starting with the most problematic) in order to prevent disruption by minimizing the time your organization spends offline.
Replacing legacy systems with new software is a delicate process, as so much data and process information are embedded in those systems. Our careful, systematic approach preserves your business processes and leaves your information intact.
Data & Logic Preservation
Replacing legacy systems with new software is a delicate process, as so much data and process information are embedded in those systems. Our careful, systematic approach preserves your business processes and leaves your information intact.
While your legacy software may have struggled to integrate with modern systems, your new systems will be built using current technologies that are designed to play well with others and flexible enough to evolve with your organization.
Cutting-Edge Technology
While your legacy software may have struggled to integrate with modern systems, your new systems will be built using current technologies that are designed to play well with others and flexible enough to evolve with your organization.
A key component of customer and employee satisfaction, as well as general productivity, is a system's user experience. Our thoughtful designers create attractive interfaces that allow our clients to e much more productive, with much less headache.
Sleek, Intuitive User Experience
A key component of customer and employee satisfaction, as well as general productivity, is a system's user experience. Our thoughtful designers create attractive interfaces that allow our clients to e much more productive, with much less headache.
Redundancy is a key issue with many legacy systems - especially those that include many different components all stitched together. As we work to replace systems, we also work to eliminate that redundancy , running every component off of one database to eliminate the frustration (and risk of error) that comes with employees having to enter and manage data on multiple platforms.
Full System Integration
Redundancy is a key issue with many legacy systems - especially those that include many different components all stitched together. As we work to replace systems, we also work to eliminate that redundancy , running every component off of one database to eliminate the frustration (and risk of error) that comes with employees having to enter and manage data on multiple platforms.
Beyond data management, our state-of-the-art replacements for your legacy systems will automate workflows, optimize processes, and consolidate tasks, decreasing the time spent on busywork ad systems management and increasing the time spent focusing on the core of the business.
Operations Consolidation
Beyond data management, our state-of-the-art replacements for your legacy systems will automate workflows, optimize processes, and consolidate tasks, decreasing the time spent on busywork ad systems management and increasing the time spent focusing on the core of the business.
Speaking of the core of the business, when we design the systems to replace your outdated software, our expert business advisors work together with your team and our developers to understand the business outcomes you're looking for and create a solution that will empower your organization to achieve its most pressing goals.
Focus on Business Outcomes
Speaking of the core of the business, when we design the systems to replace your outdated software, our expert business advisors work together with your team and our developers to understand the business outcomes you're looking for and create a solution that will empower your organization to achieve its most pressing goals.
Key steps while
replacing a legacy
system
You first need to look at how big the gap is between the tasks your system can complete vs what you need to do now and in the future
You need to consider the software’s real-time capabilities, processing speed, such as mobile devices, or application integration.
Legacy system often have non-existent on insubstantial documentation, no testing, application depending on outdated frameworks, libraries, or technologes and confusing, incosistent code.
It can be tempting to rebuild the system from the ground up, and while this can be hugely benefitial and result in great gains in ROI, it will also require substantial upfront investment.
So how do you decide between a partial and complete rebuild? We can take a look at your system and software.
Tools Used For Better Results:
Zencode’s dedicated team of software engineers is well-versed in helping our clients bring their systems up to date by replacing them in a thoughtful, methodical way that’s oriented toward business outcomes, preserves existing data and information, and minimizes blackout time.
Static code analysis
Static code analysis is the process of debugging by examining source code before a program is run. Code is analyzed against a set (or multiple sets) of coding rules. Then you get a diagnosis report of any violations of these rules based on their severity. This helps you prioritize the most urgent or important tasks.
In general, static code analysis is a good practice even beyond legacy code. It creates the opportunity to identify and eliminate code defects before code is pushed for functional QA, saving a lot of later pain and reducing technical debt. Some examples of static code tools: Code Sonar , Klocwork , CAST , SonarQube
Documentation such as standardizing naming conventions can ensure everyone is on the same page. Research into reviewing refactoring by senior developers at Xerox found a lack of documentation to be one of the biggest challenges.
Documenting your refactoring work leads to a trail of time spent and provides context for future team members.
Documentation and refactoring
Also, document your successes –
what have been the biggest wins from refactoring?
Can these be factored into peer reviews?
Replacing a legacy system with a new one allows the owner to choose any technology with a sufficiently long lifespan. New technologies will provide speed, security, and usability that legacy systems built on old technology cannot achieve. Additionally, creating a modern replacement for a legacy system allows owners to consider any functionality changes and upgrades that weren’t on the table at the time the legacy system was created.
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